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' Sept. 6, 1932. A. ALMADA GAME DEVICE Filed Oct. 20, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ALBERT A.ALMA'DA BY Q ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 6, 1932 UNITED STATES P ENT OFFIC ALBERT A. ALMADA, or vALLnJo, cAmroRNrA GAME DEVICE Application filed October 20, 1931. Serial No. 569,872.

The present invention relates generally to game devices and more partlcularly to meohanically operated means for playing a vision of a novelgame device in which the players draw colored objects from the housing thereof, such as colored marbles,,these being secreted in the housing ejected therefrom, and determinng the next move of the players on the board, the novelty of the game residing in the fact that the players do not know their next move until the marble is withdrawn each time before a move is made, which, when drawn, determines the next move.

Still another object of the invention is that of providng a novel game device which is compact and simple in construction, and which may be manufactured very cheaply. Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent with reference to the subjoined specification and the accom- I panying two sheets of drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a plan View with portions of the game board broken away to disclose interior working parts of the game device,

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of the game device housing and showing the interior elements thereof, the section being inmedicated by the line 22 in F g- I Figure 3 is a side elevation of the game device, Y

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the ejector slide of the device and the means for ejecting one marble at a time from the housing the sectionbeing indicateed by the line H inFig. l, and

Figure 5 is anedge view partly in section,

illustrating the ejector slide, per se.

Referring now,more particularly to the drawings, andespecially to Fig. 1,'thereof, the deviceof theinvention comprises a suitable housing 10, embodying a bottom 11, sides 12 ,and'13, and endipieces' 14 and15,flfor,ming as-a' whole a shallow. box like housing. V ,The cover 16 comprises the game board and is provided on its top side wth a plurality ofrectangular and square colored sections 17, N arranged as shown in Fig. 1, and somewhat similar to a checker board, and upon-which the players move: chips or checkers from" place to place as hereinafter described. The housing ends 14 and'15 are provided with slots 18 and 19 thru which the ejector slide 20 operates, said slide being provided centrally thereof and onjits upper face with an agitator 21 having downwardly curved ends 22 and 23, as clearly indicated in Figs. 4 and 5..

Slightly beyond at ends ef the agitator f'lo members 21, theejector 20 is provided with I semi-spherical orifices 24 and 25, and these orifices; are adapted to receive anyone ofa 1 plurality ofmarbles 26 which roll back and forth upon the agitator 21, the ends of the 75,

ejector slide being provided with actuating eyelets 27 and 28 to cause 'thesliding'movement thereof within the housing. 7 I

The housing 10-, as indicated in Figs. land 2, is provided with inclined members 29 and so oppositesides of the trough 31, thesedeflec- 9Q;

tors tending to guide the marbles 26, dropped thru the game board openings 34 and 35, to the trough 31 and agitator member 21, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

In playing the game, two players sit at opposite ends of the game board and one player first draws out the ejector 20 by means of the eyelet 28, a marble, of course, having been forced into the orifice 25 by the last ejecting movement of the ejector by means of the agitator 21, this movement having drawn a marble 26 to the position shown in Fig. 4.

The player now picks up the marble thus ejected and notes its color and moves his checker to a correspondingly colored square 17 on the board. After playing, he now.

drops the marble thru the opening 85, and it returns to the trough '31.

His opponent now repeats this act by drawing outwardly on the eyelet 27 which brings a marble to position on his end of the board and he moves his checker according .to the color of the marble drawn by him, these moves being alternately repeated by the players until a score is made.

The marbles are colored red, green, blue, brown etc; and the squares on the board are also variously colored to match the marble colors. When one color, brown, for instance is drawn, no move is made by the 7 player.

As the markings on the checker board and the rules for playing the game have no particular bearing on the mechanical featuresof the device, neither these rules nor the arrangement of the squares on the board are herein particularly set forth.

It will be observed with reference to Fig. 4, that the agitator 21 is provided with rounded ends 22 and 23, these ends causing the marbles to be elevated from the trough to the upper face of the agitator, along which face, they roll, as the ejector slide 20 is moved back and forth by the players, this agitation of the marbles also causing them to be mixed as to color. Theends 22 and 23 of the agitator also limit the movement of the ejector relative to the ends 14 and 1-5 of the housing 10.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is the following 1. In a game device of the class described, a housing, an ejector slide operating thru said housing, an agitator cooperating with said ejector, orifices in opposite ends of said ejector, a plurality of rollable objects within the housing, means for guiding said objects to the ejector, and means for feeding said objects singly to said orifices when the ejector is moved in either direction.

2. In a game device of the class described, a housing having inclined members arranged longitudinally thereof and terminating ina signature.

ALBERT A. ALMADA. 

